Indian Newspaper Scene

The words leap from the page in a familiar bold white-on-black font, every word heavily underlined: "Bullying can hurt so much that kids at the receiving end can be driven to kill. At a Gurgaon school, two 14-year-olds did just that and shot their classmate." It's a classic Daily Mail story given a classic Daily Mail treatment. But this is Delhi, and Mail Today a joint venture between the India...

India has been chosen as the host country for the 62nd World Newspaper Congress, 16th World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo in 2009, the World Association of Newspapers announced today. The global summit meetings of the world's press will be held March 22-25, 2009 in Hyderabad and will be hosted by the Indian Newspaper Society (INS). India has than 2000 daily newspapers in 100 languages with...

They challenge your newspaper literacy, interrupt otherwise intelligible conversations, and add to the difficulty of finding your way. The culprits: India's endemic acronyms, abbreviations and initials. Bureaucrats across the world pack official reports with them, but India distinguishes itself by relishing in their everyday use, from place names to first names and even swear words. In the first...

If the words "print" and "media" conjure up images of plummeting profits, shrinking readership and editors tearing their hair out as they attempt to staunch the exodus to the online universe, you clearly aren't thinking of India. As the country celebrates the 60th anniversary of its independence from Britain, newspapers are flourishing, with growth projections that would impress even the savviest...

Newspaper circulations worldwide rose 2.3 per cent in 2006 while newspaper advertising revenues showed substantial gains, the World Association of Newspapers announced Monday. WAN said global newspaper sales were up 2.3 per cent over the year, and had increased 9.48 per cent over the past five years. Newspaper sales increased year-on-year in Asia, Europe, Africa, South America, with North America...

Suddenly the media scene seems to be undergoing a dramatic metamorphosis in Agra, all to the advantage of the readers who have many more choices now. A new mid-day daily tabloid called DLA has finally entered Agra’s media ‘mandi’ with a bang, leading to intense competitive war with all kinds of innovative schemes and discounts. Local journalists never had it so good, with ample opportunities...

Now, here’s the bad news — the Indian print media too has begun seeing a decline in readership as has been happening in many Western countries. Most of the top-rung newspapers and magazines have lost out on readers, according to the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2007 Round 1. 'Dainik Jagran' continues to be number one among all publications in the country despite a 6 per cent drop in readership...

GUWAHATI, March 21 – North East Newspaper Society, an organization of the owners of the newspapers of the North East region has been formed today to promote and protect the interests of the newspaper industry in the region. An executive committee of the Society has also been formed with Kanaksen Deka of Agradoot as president, PG Baruah of The Assam Tribune group as vice president and GL Agarwala...

Pune, February 12: THE socio-cultural divide between the English and regional language press had given rise to ‘English elitism’ and a peculiar caste and class structure in the Indian media, said Loksatta editor Kumar Ketkar. He was speaking at a University Grants Commission-sponsored National Conference on ‘Regional Language Press: New Era, New Challenges’ organised by the UoP’s Department of...

Mint, the new business newspaper published by HT Media Ltd in association with the Wall Street Journal debuts in New Delhi and Mumbai on February 1. Published in English and with an initial circulation of around 80,000 copies, Mint would be delivering global and regional business and economic news to Indian readers Monday-Saturday each week. Every weekday, Mint will also carry four pages of...